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Celebrating Our Distinctive Heritage Celebrating Our Distinctive Heritage CelebratingCelebrating our our distinctive distinctive heritage heritage How the historic environment of York, North Yorkshire and the East Riding can help achieve Good Growth Historic England and the York and North Yorkshire LEP Celebrating our distinctive heritage How the historic environment of York, North Yorkshire and the East Riding can help achieve Good Growth Project Number 10850 Prepared by LUC May 2021 Image credits: All images reproduced courtesy of Historic England and the York and North Yorkshire LEP unless otherwise indicated. Cover images: Northallerton Market: Northallerton BID Woodend, exterior view: Scarborough Museums Trust Selby 950 illuminations: Selby District Council West Offices, York: S. Harrison Developments Bristol Land Use Consultants Ltd Landscape Design Edinburgh Registered in England Strategic Planning & Assessment Glasgow Registered number 2549296 Development Planning London Registered office: Urban Design & Masterplanning Manchester 250 Waterloo Road Environmental Impact Assessment London SE1 8RD Landscape Planning & Assessment landuse.co.uk Landscape Management 100% recycled paper Ecology Historic Environment GIS & Visualisation Contents Celebrating our distinctive heritage May 2021 Contents Key challenges and opportunities 47 Chapter 1 Case study: Bolton Abbey tithe barn 51 Introduction 1 People, places and productivity 53 Purpose 1 Priorities for action 53 Scope 1 Benefits derived from the historic environment 2 Chapter 7 Context 2 The Uplands 54 Document structure 3 Key challenges and opportunities 54 Case study: ‘Land of Iron’ Landscape Partnership Chapter 2 Scheme 59 What’s there, and why it’s important 4 People, places and productivity 60 More than the sum of its parts 14 Priorities for action 60 Continuity and change 14 Chapter 8 Chapter 3 York 61 Market towns 19 Key challenges and opportunities 61 Key challenges and opportunities 19 Case study: My Castle Gateway 66 Case study: Selby High Street Heritage Action Zone 27 People, places and productivity 68 People, places and productivity 28 Priorities for action 68 Priorities for action 28 Chapter 9 Chapter 4 Conclusions and recommendations 69 Coastal towns 29 Area-wide conclusions and recommendations 70 Key challenges and opportunities 29 Thematic recommendations 71 Case study: Woodend – creative re-use and cultural Next steps 71 activation 36 People, places and productivity 37 Priorities for action 37 Chapter 5 Lowland agricultural landscapes 39 Key challenges and opportunities 39 Case study: Food for Thought project 44 People, places and productivity 46 Priorities for action 46 Chapter 6 Estate landscapes 47 LUC I i Foreword Celebrating our distinctive heritage May 2021 Forewords Historic England York and North Yorkshire LEP As the public body helping people care for and celebrate York, North Yorkshire and the East Riding feature a rich array of England’s historic environment, Historic England believes that our historic assets situated across its cities, towns, countryside, and shared heritage has the power to enrich all of our lives. It brings coastline. Our diverse and distinctive natural and built beauty and history into our everyday experience. It provides us environment tells the tale of both the area’s geological formation with homes, workplaces and leisure opportunities. It helps us to and historic patterns of settlement. However, at the forefront of define our place in the world. And it provides us with economic our historic environment are people; places and communities assets that can fuel good growth for our distinctive places. have been built by our people over time and continue to be developed by people now and into the future. Our connections to the past are central to the sense of place and quality of life for residents and visitors alike. Critically they are also This pioneering report looks at how we can make the very most of a major source of added value for business. For example, Malton our historical assets, exploring a range of opportunities across our has shown how a town’s character, location and historic geography to enhance the socio-economic contribution of our environment can drive growth, reinventing itself as Yorkshire’s historic environment and cultural heritage. As the report food capital – a process which as this report makes clear could be emphasises, the historic environment and the economy are not replicated in other places. Individual sites like Bolton Abbey Tithe mutually exclusive. Rather than being seen as a constraint, the Barn in Skipton and Woodend Creative Workspace in area’s historic environment can be a significant driver for growth, Scarborough show how heritage assets can be ‘attractions’ that increasing the economic value of our visitor offer, aiding business draw users and deliver valuable, unique experiences. development through better utilisation of heritage buildings, creating job and training opportunities, improving the desirability Historic places are important to our identity, our wellbeing and our and attractiveness of our places, and so much more. Successful ecosystems. We should use successes from the past to provide places are places where people want to live, work, learn, play and inspiration for reinvigorating them today and make them serve the visit. How we unlock the potential of our heritage assets and future in the best way they can. We can do this by facilitating historic places will be crucial for the continued success and desirable new homes, inspiring workspaces, attractive and economic resilience of our area. accessible green spaces, all well-connected both physically and digitally. All of our vacant and under-used heritage assets are I would like to extend my thanks to Historic England for their stalled sites which could be contributing to good growth. Our collaboration in undertaking this piece of work. Great places have towns are well-placed to become the hearts of inclusive, carbon- heritage at their core – an ethos that underpins Historic England’s neutral circular economies. work. How we manage change in a way that not only respects and enhances our understanding of the historic environment, but I would like to thank LUC as well as all the LEP and Historic also enables opportunities for economic and social development England staff who have advised on the work. We want to move on is vital to the continued success of our places. May I also highlight now to see how we can help to turn this report’s the important contribution of my predecessor, David A Kerfoot recommendations into actions which will create sustainable new MBE DL, who drove forward the place agenda during his time as futures for our beautiful old places across York, North Yorkshire chair of the York & North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership. and the East Riding. As a Local Enterprise Partnership, we look forward to strengthening our partnership with Historic England, realising the opportunities presented by our historic environment in collaboration with our local authorities, key stakeholders and private sector partners. Trevor Mitchell Helen Simpson OBE Regional Director North East Chair of York and North and Yorkshire, Historic Yorkshire Local Enterprise England Partnership LUC I i -Chapter 1 Introduction Celebrating our distinctive heritage May 2021 Chapter 1 Introduction York, North Yorkshire and the East Riding (YNYER) has a fantastically rich cultural heritage, ranging from the prehistoric, Roman, Viking and medieval history of York itself, to the industries and agriculture that helped build the region’s places from the earliest times. The diversity and distinctiveness that has developed over centuries combines to create an unmistakeable sense of place, and of community identity. YNYER is an area where heritage is highly valued and economically important – with heritage estimated to account for GVA of £2.1bn and 41,000 jobs1 across the wider region – but this contribution could be much more significant. Good Growth – as defined in the York and North Yorkshire LEP's Local Industrial Strategy – offers a range of opportunities to enhance the contribution made by the historic environment and cultural heritage, and to steer the right growth to the right places. Purpose This document sets a high-level framework to aid businesses, delivery partners and the general public, by: ◼ providing an appreciation of the quality, character and importance of York, North Yorkshire and the East Riding’s historic places and landscapes; and ◼ helping identify opportunities for ‘win-win-win’ development in the region – securing positive outcomes for people, the economy and the historic environment. In addition, the document establishes priorities for action on the part of key partners and stakeholders to unlock development potential, improve understanding and enhance the contribution of heritage to the region’s economy. Scope This document is necessarily strategic, focusing on the key themes of the region’s heritage and drawing out opportunities for economic and social development that reflect and respect historic character. It provides an introduction to ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 https://historicengland.org.uk/content/heritage-counts/pub/2019/heritage-and- the-economy-2019/ LUC I 1 Chapter 1 Introduction Celebrating our distinctive heritage May 2021 the history and development of the region, drawing out Context important elements from this narrative to structure discussion of the issues facing these historic places – and the
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